St. John's Lutheran Cemetery
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St John's Lutheran Cemetery | |
Location | Upper Tug Fork Rd., near Alexandria, Kentucky |
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Coordinates | 39°0′51″N 84°22′58″W / 39.01417°N 84.38278°W |
Area | 1.4 acres (0.57 ha) |
MPS | German Settlement, Four Mile Creek Area TR |
NRHP reference No. | 83002617[1] |
Added to NRHP | March 9, 1983 |
St John's Lutheran Cemetery is a historic Lutheran cemetery on Upper Tug Fork Rd. near Alexandria, Kentucky. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[1]
It is the cemetery of the St. John's Lutheran Church, which was established in 1860 and served German Lutherans in both in its Campbell County, Kentucky area and in southern Ohio.[2]
The cemetery was deemed "significant as a place of interment for local German Protestants. It also contains a unique instance of German funerary folk art."[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ a b "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: German Settlement Properties of Campbell County, Kentucky" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved February 25, 2018. With photos.
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[edit]Categories:
- Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in Kentucky
- National Register of Historic Places in Campbell County, Kentucky
- Lutheran cemeteries in the United States
- 1860 establishments in Kentucky
- Buildings and structures completed in 1860
- German-American culture in Kentucky
- Lutheranism in Kentucky
- Cemeteries established in the 1860s